The public security war, the pressure on both Han and Wu sides, is a bit big.

Although Zhang Xi consciously downgraded the level of the war this time, which was only limited to the degree of border friction, judging from the actual development trend, it is really possible to escalate and turn into a large-scale war between the two countries at any time.

This is not a good thing for both countries, and a hasty war without all kinds of preparations has been made will most likely only be a lose-lose result.

Zhang Xi repeatedly asked Shi Bao to stabilize his mentality and not to march in the direction of Wuling, and at the same time immediately ordered Li Qiu and Zhou Tai to quickly conquer the public security and end this border war.

The pressure immediately came to Li Qiu and Zhou Tai's side.

To be honest, Li Qiu and Zhou Tai, the current situation is really not too good.

In fact, both of them were generals promoted and appointed when Zhang Xi was in charge of Jiangling in the early years, but the development of their careers over the years has been very unsmooth.

Because of his identity as a native of Yizhou, Li Qiu, like Zhang Wei, was very seriously excluded from Jingzhou, and the strategic thinking of the Han Dynasty has been "East and Sun Quan, Northern Expedition to Cao Wei" over the years, which has led to Li Qiu being trapped in Wuling County in Jingnan.

Although later, Xi Hong was transferred back to Xiangyang to take up his post, and Li Qiu was able to govern a county, but the problem is that Li Qiu's position is still the Governor of Wuling, and it is not justified for him to act as the Captain of Wuling.

Even compared with Zhang Wei who guarded Fancheng, although Zhang Wei has also been nailed to Fancheng all these years, his rights have been restricted, but his official positions have been promoted.

After the last Northern Expedition, Zhang Wei was meritorious in guarding Fancheng and transporting grain and grass, and now he is the position of a general who is a prisoner.

This is a relatively high-ranking military position among the miscellaneous generals, and if there is any meritorious service, you can even work hard to win the position of a Quartet general.

But Li Qiu can't, he has been the captain of Wuling for more than ten years.

As for Zhou Tai, in fact, it is a little better than Li Qiu, and Zhou Tai is now a partial general's military position, which is also due to Zhou Tai's main contribution to being stationed in Xinye.

But the problem is that Zhou Tai has also been in Jingzhou for almost ten years, and his greatest authority is only to lead 3,000 troops to guard a county, and he has very few opportunities to go into battle to kill the enemy, and he is also aggrieved in his heart.

Therefore, this battle is a battle between the two people, and both of them are holding their breath, wanting to prove to Zhang Xi that the ability of the two of them is really no worse than Shi Bao and Deng Ai.

Therefore, as soon as the two received the attack order given by Zhang Xi, they directly let go of their hands and feet and launched a fierce attack on the public security city.

Then they were under more pressure.

20,000 people attacking a city guarded by 5,000 people, a four-to-one attack ratio, is there such an advantage?!

Yes!

Is it a big advantage?!

Not a big deal!!

According to the interpretation of the art of war, the multiple is divided, and the five are encircled. Their current strength is just the advantage of being able to besiege the city, and if they want to defeat it, they have to do it through other methods.

Of course, the art of war is only a reference to a large extent, and it is not a complete truth. Otherwise, Huo Jun's battle example of guarding Jiameng Pass should not exist.

That's an example of killing 20,000 people with less than 2,000 soldiers.

On the actual battlefield, there are many factors that affect the victory or defeat of the war, not only the question of the number of troops, but also the external conditions, internal conditions, and even whether the commander will make mistakes, all of which may affect the victory or defeat of the entire battle.

Therefore, while Li Qiu and Zhou Tai strengthened their attacks and gave the defenders killing and pressure, they were also waiting for the appearance of fighters.

For example, the commander of the enemy army, under the pressure of such a siege, will make the wrong choice.

But the problem is that the guards of the Eastern Wu Army are not given in vain!

This is Lu Kai.

Although his reputation is not obvious now, his ability is there!!

Anyway, he is also the prime minister of Eastern Wu in history, although the level of the previous prime ministers of Eastern Wu is uneven, but Lu Kai still belongs to the category of that kind of relatively good level.

In the early years of the crusade against Shanyue, he was born as a bandit, which also gave Lu Kai a good experience in battle formations, and he also had a good strategic ability, guarding the public security, although he was at a disadvantage, but Lu Kai still insisted.

But again, Lu Kai is not under pressure.

After all, he is a weak side in terms of troops, and in the face of the siege of four times the enemy, it is okay to hold on for a while, and Lu Kai does not know how long he will hold out.

In case people really risk more than half of the casualties to fight with you, then this public security city will not be able to defend it.

Again, the external environment is not very good for Lu Kai.

Five days have passed, and there are still no reinforcements coming on the south side of Gong'an City, and it is obvious that the reinforcements of Wuling County are most likely repelled by Shu thieves, and there will be no reinforcements in a short time.

And the city itself is really not very strong.

More than half a year ago, Gong'an City had already suffered a devastating blow, and the person who caused this blow at that time was the army of Soochow.

Now it's okay, it has become the Dongwu army to defend the city, and the Shu army has attacked the city outside, and the recovery of the city defense is not very ideal.

What Lu Kai is most worried about now is that the Shu thieves will transport the trebuchet that crashed into the warship across the river to deal with the public security city wall, if this is the case, Lu Kai must consider the breakthrough route in advance.

So. The pressure on Lu Kai is also very great.

And in addition to the public security battlefield, there is also a place where there is more pressure on people than these people.

That is Zhu Ran of Lukou.

Since the last successful capture of Gong'an, threatening Jingzhou, and forcing the Jingzhou army to return to the army, Zhu Ran was crowned by Sun Quan as the general of Zhengbei, the Marquis of Yong'an, the governor of Jingzhou, and stationed in Lukou.

It doesn't matter if there are other official positions, Zhu Ran really doesn't lack this, but this governor of Jingzhou gave Zhu Ran the right to control the four counties of Jingnan and even take the initiative to attack Jingzhou.

It's a big deal.

Zhu Ran's promotion route is really like Lu Meng's promotion route back then.

First guarded a place, then the governor's side, and finally became the commander of the army Lu Meng's fate was not very good, the army was defeated, and he died of depression, but from the perspective of his career, Lu Meng at that time was indeed in the position of the second person in the military.

The first person is Zhou Yu, an unshakable Jiangdong famous general.

Zhu Ran is now replicating such a route, and even, if Zhu Ran can break Lu Meng's limit and really capture Jingzhou. Even if he doesn't dare to compare with Zhou Yu, at least he can be on an equal footing with Lu Xun in Huainan.

But Zhu Ran knew that this matter was too difficult.

He can't even control the Jiangling Navy now, let alone go north to attack Jiangling, and even Xiangfan, and finally take Jingzhou!!

Who is talking to himself now, Zhang Yuanchang can't understand the water war, Zhu Ran is the first to be anxious with him. The water warfare tactics that people who don't know about water warfare came up with, but the Soochow Navy has nothing to do?!

Really, Zhu Ran really didn't have any way to take the turtle array that Zhang Xi put out.

Let's go head-to-head, the threat of those two Mengchong warships is too great.

Taking advantage of the agility of the Ke to launch an attack, it was impossible to break through the defense line laid by the Jiangling Navy in front of Meng Chong in a short time, but the Jiangling Navy could use Meng Chong to throw stones to disrupt the offensive formation of the Ke as much as possible.

Using the Mengchong battleship to take the lead in attacking the Jiangling Navy's defense line has the effect, and it can also impact and kill some of the Jiangling Navy's Route, but the problem is that Zhu Ran can't accept the price of doing this.

The speed of the Mengchong battleship was not fast enough, and the steering was not flexible enough, and the catapult of the Jiangling naval army on the opposite side not only had a long range, but also had a high shooting accuracy, and the hit rate of hitting the Ke was a bit miserable, but the big target of the Mengchong warship was accurate one by one.

After two active attacks, Zhu Ran had already sunk two ships and damaged three Mengchong battleships, so he really couldn't afford to lose.

In these years, the cost of building a Mengchong battleship was very high, Zhu Ran led 20,000 sailors to garrison Lukou, and there were no less than 300 large and small warships, but the Mengchong battleship, only eight were smashed and it was really all gone.

As for a brain-dead subordinate, he said that he could follow the example of the Battle of Chibi and attack it with fire. Zhu Ran almost didn't give a big mouth on the spot.

The special people are upstream, you are downstream, and now it is the time when the northwest wind prevails. Fire attack?! Who are you burning?!

Besides, Zhang Xi is also a person who has experienced the Battle of Chibi, and he was still in the military camp of the Metropolitan Governor back then, can you know how the Metropolitan Governor attacked with fire?!

He is not Cao Cao's second cargo, and he will connect the warships to find death by himself!!

Believe it or not, if you dare to attack with fire, Zhang Xi can add some fish oil to you. Anyway, it wasn't his Jiangling Navy that burned, he was afraid of something.

Well, so far, all the frontal battlefield tactics, Zhu Ran can't solve the turtle formation laid by Zhang Xi.

What's even more infuriating is that the initiative on the battlefield is completely in Zhang Xi's hands.

To send military food supplies across the river, Zhang Xi led the naval army to take the initiative to fight, setting up a turtle formation and waiting for the Eastern Wu army to attack, but if he didn't send supplies across the river, Zhang Xi would directly shrink into the water village and not come out.

When to fight, where to fight, and how to fight, it is all up to Zhang Xi to decide, and the Soochow Navy does not even have the opportunity to create fighters on its own.

There's no way, people just guard such a river crossing channel and don't move.

As for encircling and storming the Gangneung Army's water village, the Gangneung Army was blocked in the water village and could not come out. Zhu Ran hasn't tried it, but the effect is very bad.

The location of the Jiangling Army's water village is obviously consulted by the masters, and the location is very good, and it is located in a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although the defensive arrangement is not too clever, it is also strict, and it is really a strategy to attack such a water village.

In addition, Zhang Xi also transferred eight bed crossbows from the head of Jiangling City, which were distributed in all directions of the water village, and the walled city of catapults was also set up on the high ground near the shore.

A strong bow and a hard crossbow and stones were smashed down, and before they got close to the water village, the Eastern Wu army had to be smashed.

After Zhu Ran only launched a tentative attack, he gave up this idea and could only continue to suffer with the Jiangling naval army.

But it's not a way to continue to suffer like this.

Lu Dai sent a letter to inform Zhu Ran that he had already led troops to save Wuling County, saying that it was a letter to inform him, but in fact, it was somewhat of a reproach, but it was difficult to say clearly because of the official position.

Lu Dai's meaning is obvious-how can the 20,000 navy army of the dignified Wu not be able to take the 7,000 Jiangling navy that was temporarily cobbled?!

This question, not to mention that Lu Dai has it, Sun Quan is estimated to have it.

If it goes on like this, let alone reopening the waterway of the Yangtze River and cutting off the grain and grass supply line of the besieging Gong'an Shu army, maybe even Wuling County will be lost under the sneak attack of Shu thieves.

Zhu Ran is really under pressure.

And at this time, Zhu Ran received a letter from Jiangxia County, the general Zhou Yu.

In the letter, Zhou Yu only said one thing - public security!!

(End of chapter)